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Feb 10, 2011
Vessel with Feline
Vessel with Feline
700 BC-AD 1
Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style
(700 BCE–1 CE)
Earthenware, resin-based paint
Diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); Overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Gift of John Wise 1948.477
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Small, wild, reclusive felines, pampas cats live on the margins of agricultural fields, where they prey on rodents and other pests that are a farmer’s bane
Description
Little is known of the meaning of the beautifully abstracted felines so often incised on Paracas ceramics. The designs achieve much of their complexity through color applied as resin-based paint after the vessel was fired in a smoky atmosphere that blackened its surface. Two spouts joined by a bridge appear on many fine South Coast ceramics. The form probably had meaning, now lost.
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